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EP21: The new AI stack — Claude Fable plans, GPT5.6 builds, Grok 4.5 grinds
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Nomad Table vs Nomads.com — IRL wins
At 43:15 · chapter starts 41:07
Levels.io going native iOS generated a tweet and a lot of speculation. The headline is clear enough — AI has made iOS development approachable for solo builders. But Luca's read is more interesting: Nomad Table, an iOS-only social map app for digital nomads, has quietly hit roughly $1M ARR and 70,000 users [1] — Luca Arrigo "Nomad Table: 70,000 users in first year: Nomad Table, a social map app for digital nomads, crossed 70,000 users within its first year and r…" 42:10 while Nomads.com has cut its price to $1 to defend market share. Nomad Table does something Nomads.com never managed: it actually connects people in person, through a map of local events. Ben and Rik excavate Levels' revenue dashboard and find it full of interesting anomalies — the $803K figure turns out to be from a Cursor investment being priced, not operational MRR. The meta-lesson: ideas from Levels spark industries, and then focused single-product founders build the better version on top of them.
Nomad Table, a social map app for digital nomads, crossed 70,000 users within its first year and reached approximately $1M ARR, reportedly outperforming Nomads.com.
Nomad Table achieved approximately $1 million in annual recurring revenue, significantly outperforming the newly repriced Nomads.com app.
